Shallow State Operative

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Nothing that is happening in DC will make any sense unless you first absorb one critical fact.

Both political parties have been replaced.

There are no Republicans. There are no Democrats. The stationary exists, but the political unity does not. They are pseudoparties.

There are not two political parties in America, there are three.

They are Nationalist Party, the Globalist Party, and the OogaBooga Party.

Nationalists are heritage Americans who want to restore American values, principles and greatness to America by running America as if it were just like every other country on the map.... a blood and soil nation belonging to and representing a people.

Example Nationalist politicians would be Pat Buchanan, Barry Goldwater, and Ross Perot. Examples Nationalist X accounts would be @AuronMacintyre, @romanhelmetguy, and myself.

Globalists are a loose coalition of those who will stop at nothing to loot the system and enjoy the managed decline for as long as possible. Their plans focus on keeping the cost of labor down and the price of land up by moving industries and people freely across national borders as needed.

Example Globalist politicians would be Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan. Example Globalist X accounts would @JoelWBerry, @benshapiro, and @ConceptualJames.

OogaBoogas are a collection of tribals wearing suits whose primary goals are self-enrichment, loyalty to their third world tribe of origin, and shared resentment of Western Civilization. They are also supported by dysfunctional bioleninists.

Example OogaBooga politicians would be Zohran Mamdani, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Barrack Obama. OogaBoogas don't really have the wit for prominence on X, but they have eleventy-billion small accounts.

Right now, the "democrats" are about to begin a power struggle between Globalists and OogaBooga, which OogaBooga will win, because all the things that make them win are unavoidable consequences of Globalists' cheap labor plan. The OogaBoogas are the golem that the Globalists have set loose to rampage in the streets, and they cannot fight it without abandoning their whole agenda.

Also right now, the "republicans" are in the early stages of a power struggle between the Globalists and the Nationalists.

This is why "republicans" appear to act like they don't want to win.

Because the struggle is not between republicans and democrats. It is between Globalists and Nationalists. The need to defeat "democrat" candidates so as to retain elected office is always balanced by the need to weaponize those same "democrats" against others in the "republican" party, and so to prevent Nationalists from having federal representation.

The fight for America's future is not between republicans and democrats for control of DC. It is between Nationalists and Globalists for control of the Republican Party.

This is why the "republicans" did nothing with a supermajority for 2 years.

There was no supermajority. Because there are no republicans. Only Nationalists, Globalists, and OogaBooga.

It is meaningless for "republicans" to win elections now. Because there are no republicans. There are Globalists. And there are Nationalists.

The Nationalists must win.

And the timeframe for the Nationalists to do this is determined by the other civil war... the struggle for control of the Democratic Party. The Globalists in the DNC will eventually lose to the OogaBooga that they brought in to line their pockets. They have no effective defense against OogaBooga because they have been preaching open borders, decolonization, and anti-racism forever.

They are analogous to the Jews of Prague in the old story, about to be murdered by their own Golem.

The Nationalists must win control of the Republican Party before the Globalists lose control of the Democratic Party.

Because Nationalists can beat OogaBooga, and Globalists can't.

If the Nationalists win in time, they can curbstomp OogaBooga, Bukele style, and we can have a proper country again. If they don't, the United States will become a third world country, and we'll have to take a couple hundred thousand rednecks and conquer New Zealand or something to create a metaphorical seed bank for Western Civilization.

The first step in winning is to understand who the enemy is.

Bukele showed us that the power of a unified state, supported by its people, can always clean out domestic enemies with swift and ruthless action.

The reason we haven't done that is that we have no unified state. Because of the true enemy.

The enemy is Globalists, not OogaBoogas. We must understand that Globalist "republicans" are not fellow conservatives who are mistaken about something. They not conservatives. They conserve nothing. They are the enemy.

We must purge ourselves of the enemy within. Then, and only then, can we defeat the enemy without.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

@AdnaanJnr They screwed up Cyclops' optic blast. They aren't lasers, they're kinetic energy like bullets.

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@drawandstrike I've never believed these elections were legit. But I no longer believe anything can or will be done about it. Happy to be proven wrong, but my hopium tank has run dry.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

I'm a storyteller.

I will tell you a story.

Not a thinly veiled allegory or analogy. Not a fable. Not a parody or a satire, or some smug little parable featuring characters "Ronald Grump" and "Alan Tusk".

No, this is a true story, and it means what it means, with no hidden symbolism whatsoever. It contains only facts, and general principles to derive from them.

It is a story about Rome.

We all know what Rome was. It was a republic, then an Empire, then nothing.

But every time we ask why, historians wish to tell us it is complicated, and that we desperately need historians, such as themselves, to sort it all out.

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire was not complicated.

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire can be explained in two words.

Cheap labor.

The Romans, as you know, had two classes, the patricians and the plebeians.

The patricians ruled Rome. But the plebeians were Rome. And the patricians forgot this.

Around this point in the story, you may be thinking you understand me already. You may think you have anticipated where I am going with this. You may think that this is going to be some general polemic about the importance of remembering the little people.

It is not. I have a very specific meaning, and I always choose my words very, very carefully.

Two words.

Cheap. Labor.

The Romans patricians, like the old and the rich of any society, owned land, and sold goods. To do this, they bought labor.

The Roman plebeians, most especially the young, sold labor. So that they could buy goods and land.

So, it should go without saying, but often doesn't, that it was in the interest of plebeians that goods and land be cheap, and labor be expensive, and in the interest of patricians that land and goods should be expensive, and labor should be cheap.

Now, markets have natural cycles. The price of every thing fluctuates up and down, looking for an equilibrium which is only ever temporary.

Sometimes goods and land are cheap, and labor is expensive. Then the plebeians become fat and prosperous, and they marry pretty girls and have lots of healthy children.

Sometimes goods and land are expensive, and labor is cheap, and patricians amass vast fortunes and build fine estates and eat honeyed dormice.

To every thing, there is a season.

But the patricians controlled Rome. Not fully or directly, not in theory, but they had money. And money buys power. Just as power buys money.

And the temptation, in the long run, became irresistible. To buy political power, and put the finger of that political power on the scales of the market.

To make sure the cheap labor stays cheap forever.

In Rome, cheap labor meant slaves. Elsewhere, it has meant other things.

In Rome, slaves kept labor cheap not only because slaves don't get paid, and can't quit, but also because every plebeian who sells labor must compete with the slave on price.

Little by little, this took away from the plebeians, not only because real wages were depressed, but more importantly because there were no seasons of labor scarcity. No cycles in the market where wages went high.

No fat seasons for the plebes, just an ever-increasing drought.

And, while the patricians controlled Rome, the plebeians were Rome. It was their blood, shed in the legions, that conquered the world. Their sweat that built the shining city of seven hills.

And their patriotism that defined what Rome was.

The patricians ruled Rome. But the plebeians were Rome, and when they ceased to bear allegiance to Rome, Rome ceased to exist, because the only thing that Rome ever was, the only thing that any city or nation ever is, is its people.

A man who has no work, a man who must compete with slaves, a man who is beaten down to want the hungriest beggar will take, is a man who cannot have a home and a family.

Not only because he cannot afford such things. But because no woman will have him. No woman will bear his children.

The ultimate expression, after all, of female lust and admiration, is "I want to have his babies".

Fewer people seem to realize that the reverse is true.

I was told once, by a man who should have known better, that Rome fell because the Romans forgot what it meant to be Roman.

Nonsense.

Rome fell because Romans knew exactly what it meant to be Roman. Which meant they knew that to be Roman meant to be replaced by slaves.

The patricians bore no allegiance to Rome, because it was cheaper to replace the Roman workers with slaves, and the Roman legions with mercenaries.

The plebeians bore no allegiance to Rome, because Rome bore no allegiance to them.

And so Rome simply ceased to be.

The outward forms hung around awhile, until the mercenaries, bearing no true allegiance to Rome, realized they didn't have to wait to be paid. They could just... take.

The patricians destroyed Rome because they thought like politicians instead of kings.

A politician buys a crown by offering the most to those whose support is most in doubt.

A king knows that crowns and thrones are only symbols, and power comes from armies of loyal men, whose loyalty must be bought with loyalty in turn. Not table scraps.

The Roman plebeians didn't want, and couldn't survive on, free bread and circuses. They needed work and land and incomes to have families and happy lives.

But no Caesar emerged in time.

Tick tock, Mr. Vance.

Tick tock.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

Keys to not getting your shit pushed in.

1) Don't import foreigners that vote 80% for Democrats.

2) Don't start a retarded civil war within your own party over foreign policy.

3) Don't run terrible DEI minority candidates.

4) Stop crowning candidates before your own voters have a chance to have their say.

5) Run proper primaries so you can figure out who the best candidate is.

6) Don't spend 100mil to keep deeply unpopular traitors in their seats who can then use that influence to knife you in the back when they lose.

7) Stop attacking your base (young White men).

8) You don't convince voters to vote for you by bullying them into silence.

9) Fund a patronage network so that you have an army of high quality people communicating your wins.

10) Take Democrat terrorism seriously so your best people don't get fucking killed.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

@itispsychomath "Outta the way, nerds."

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

@nervewing Probably a "gotta spend money to make money" issue. Publicity campaign and merch sales could boost revenue, but they'd need a 33% sustained increase at current levels, possible but not easy. Additionally, they could consider personnel cuts and other cost saving measures.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

@kevinofsolmira Most of the "before" images show the men either wearing wigs for roles, or when they were much younger before their hair started thinning. Only Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis, and Vin Diesel are shown with thinning hair, and at a stage way before most men would consider shaving it.

[Christian @zenjakobsen]

You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks.

Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine.

What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support.

Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner.

Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture.

Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

You need to understand how Right-wing people under 40 view the Left.

When we think of Leftists, we do not think of Barack Obama or Ezra Klein. Yes, these guys are on the Left, but younger Millennials and Zoomers on the Right do not think of Leftists in their own age bracket as polished technocrats.

These are not the sort of people that make up our Left-wing counterparts that we grew up with, went to school with, or work with.

When we think of Leftists, the first thing that pops into our head are a bunch of disgusting, depraved, spiteful mutants who want to destroy everything around them as payback for the crime of being born.

We think of Discord troons that invaded our hobbies, Reddit mods who are drunk on the most insignificant power imaginable, that one girl from high school or college who became a literal Communist, and that friend or family member who cut off all contact because we refused to treat their mental illness like a status symbol.

We think of people who, if they ever became a majority of the country and actually managed to possess political power, would inevitably kill tens of millions of people out of blind envy and petty cruelty.

Younger people on the Right come across as impatient and anxious in their mindset and mannerisms because they understand what will eventually happen when these people succeed their Gen X and Boomer predecessors in the Democratic Party.

They know what is to come if their own generational cohorts on the Left actually take power, and they feel incredibly exasperated that it seems like none of their parents or grandparents understand just how late the hour truly is.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

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[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

@MetaaaSin @choeshow If you think 2 of those full grown burly men would have any difficulty completely restraining and imobilizing that tiny woman without hurting her or her hurting herself, you need a refresher in basic biology and physics.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

Apart from expressing satisfaction in the fact it proves all the assertions about open borders, I don't think we're gleeful about it. If some are, they shouldn't be. The world benefits from a strong, distinct, and traditional French culture and national identity. What's happening in France is a tragic preview of things to come if we don't change course. We all hope that the West as a whole comes to its senses.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

@GarbageHuman24 Another feather in your gap?

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@Jacksukku @Oilfield_Rando I was thinking of this exact scene! 😂

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

I’m Polish. If France is your future, I come from the end of that road.

France shows you the slow version. We lived the full one – the version where the state doesn’t just take care of everything. It owns everything.

In Poland it arrived with Soviet bayonets. In America it would arrive by vote – slower, softer, with better slogans. But the destination is the same, and so is the mechanism.

It starts with prices. When the state decides what things should cost, prices stop telling the truth. A price is a message: this is scarce, this is wanted, make more of this. Abolish the message, and the whole economy goes deaf. So the shelves emptied – first of meat, then of almost everything.

Every Pole knew the joke. A man walks into a shop: "No meat?" The clerk: "No, sir. Here is no fish. No meat is across the street."

We queued for everything. People wrote their place in line on their palms and kept lists through the night. You waited years for a small car, and often more than a decade for an apartment. Not because Poles were lazy. Because nobody in the system had any reason to produce what we needed.

At work, we had another joke: we pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us.

And the promise of equality? It produced the most unequal system of all. The party elite had their own shops – Poles called them the shops behind the yellow curtains. Those with dollars shopped in special stores. Everyone else got the queue.

Then the system needed informers, because nobody believed in it anymore. Our neighbors were recruited to report on us. You never knew who was listening – the colleague, the friend, sometimes family. So we learned to live a double life: one language in public, another at home.

Those who spoke up got the wolf ticket: no job, no promotion, sometimes no university place for their children. Nobody needed to send them to prison. They just couldn’t live.

The newspapers reported record harvests while the shelves stood empty. Everyone knew. Nobody said it. That is what a society looks like when the lie becomes the system.

In 1950 we were about as rich as Spain. By 1989, Spain was twice as rich. That is what forty years of "fairness" cost us.

Today in America, the method is softer. Your neighbor won’t inform on you to the secret police. Someone will report your post, and you’ll be cancelled – no job, no account, no platform. Different tools, same machine.

We got out. Ten million of us joined Solidarity, and in 1989 a system that looked eternal collapsed. Since then, Poland has become one of the great success stories of Europe – because people were finally free to build.

But we still carry it. More than thirty years later, you can see it in the careful answers, the closed faces - the system leaves faster than the fear does. It takes generations to get out of it fully once you fall into that trap.

Nobody votes for the queue. Nobody votes for the informer. They come with the promise.

Trust me, you don’t want to go down that road.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

Is this about the tiger? If they had an opportunity to kill or incapacitate the tiger during the attack, then of course they should have done that to save that man's life or prevent grievous harm. But if nothing could safely be done in the moment, then it is what is is. No sense killing the tiger now for vengeance or justice or whatever.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

There's not a one-size-fits-all answer. Could be from developing multiple income streams in addition to their day job, like rental properties/other side hustles. Military service offers perks like zero down home loans, free college, and a guaranteed pension after 20 years, plus VA disability. Stable marriages where both partners earn a good income and save/invest. Those are just a few situations that could enable more lavish spending.

[Shallow State Operative @ShallowStateOp]

The difference isn't as big as you think. Anything that is public can already be viewed by everyone. I think the immediacy of being able to view it in real time is what you take issue with, but it's a paltry distinction. You can choose not to watch it as it happens or view a replay.